NEWS: Anthology Sale: A PEOPLE’S FUTURE OF THE UNITED STATES

by
John Joseph Adams

This one has been under wraps—or kinda-sorta under wraps—for quite a while, but the announcement for this project finally ran in Publishers Marketplace today:

Author of THE CHANGELING Victor LaValle and editor of the Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy series John Joseph Adams’ A PEOPLE’S FUTURE OF THE UNITED STATES, an anthology of 25 original speculative fiction stories that challenge oppressive narratives and imagine a future in which the country is shaped by justice and freedom, featuring stories by Lesley Nneka Arimah, Jamie Ford, Hugh Howey, N.K. Jemisin, Seanan McGuire, Alice Sola Kim, Daniel José Older, Charles Yu, and more, to Victory Matsui at One World, in an exclusive submission, for publication in February 2019, by Seth Fishman at The Gernert Company (NA).

Table of Contents

Introduction — Victor LaValle

The Bookstore at the End of America — Charlie Jane Anders

Our Aim is Not to Die — A. Merc Rustad

The Wall — Lizz Huerta

Read After Burning — Maria Dahvana Headley

Chapter 5: Disruption and Continuity [excerpted] — Malka Older

It Was Saturday Night, I Guess That Makes It Alright — Sam J. Miller

Attachment Disorder — Tananarive Due

By His Bootstraps — Ashok K. Banker

Riverbed — Omar El Akkad

What Maya Found There — Daniel José Older

The Referendum — Lesley Nneka Arimah

Calendar Girls — Justina Ireland

The Synapse Will Free Us From Ourselves — Violet Allen

O.1 — gabby rivera

The Blindfold — Tobias S. Buckell

No Algorithms in the World — Hugh Howey

Esperanto — Jamie Ford

ROME — G. Willow Wilson

Give Me Cornbread or Give Me Death — N. K. Jemisin

Good News Bad News — Charles Yu

What You Sow — Kai Cheng Thom

A History Of Barbed Wire — Daniel H. Wilson

The Sun in Exile — Catherynne M. Valente

Harmony — Seanan McGuire

Now Wait for This Week — Alice Sola Kim

Pre-Order

Note: All of these pre-order pages currently say “thirty visionary” stories, but there are only 25 stories in the book. [That should be updated/corrected shortly.]

About John

John Joseph Adams is the editor of John Joseph Adams Books, an imprint of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. He is also the series editor of Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy and the bestselling editor of more than two dozen anthologies, such as Wastelands and The Living Dead. He is also the editor and publisher of the magazines Nightmare and the Hugo Award-winning Lightspeed, and is a producer for WIRED’s The Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy podcast.